15 Whisking Everything (Apple Orchard Cozy Mystery Book 15) by Chelsea Thomas

Author:Chelsea Thomas
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2021-12-26T05:00:00+00:00

22

THE RAT KING REIGNS AGAIN

“I can’t believe Teeny’s skipping out on a trip to New York City.” I climbed into the driver’s seat of my blue pickup truck and buckled my seatbelt. “When we first started investigating, she was always offended if we left her out.”

Miss May was already waiting in the passenger’s seat, sipping from a big mug of coffee, no lid or anything. That’s just how she rolled. “When we first started solving local mysteries, Teeny wasn’t experiencing the worst creative blocks she’d ever felt. She told me she was hanging back to take an online webinar hosted by some YouTube chef. I couldn’t believe it. Teeny, taking a webinar? Two days ago, she didn’t know what a webinar was. She probably thought it was something to do with spiders. But now she’s taking instruction from some kid with a webcam? Doesn’t make any sense. I told her she just needs to relax and let it come to her. You can’t force breakthroughs or change.”

I put Wanda’s address in my phone GPS and propped the phone up on the dashboard, pulling out of the farm. “Sure, you can’t force change, but you can help create a fertile environment for growth.”

“You sound like one of those TV talk shows that plays in the middle of the afternoon. Dr. Bill or whatever.”

“His name is Dr. Phil, and he’s in syndication, so his program airs at all hours, thank you very much.” Miss May looked over at me. I avoided her glance. “So maybe I watched a lot of Dr. Phil back when I was living in Jersey City.”

“That’s how we know his advice doesn’t work. You were like the Rat King of a garbage kingdom in that apartment. Take the Taconic South.”

“You don’t have to tell me how to get to the city,” I said, snapping just a bit. “The Rat King could find her way home in a blizzard.”

“Is that right?” said Miss May.

I nodded.

“Well, Your Highness, you just missed the on-ramp to the highway.”

Although both Miss May and my GPS squawked directions at me on the entire drive down to Manhattan, I still missed several turns on our journey there. At one point, I navigated us into a dead-end alley in the Bronx and had to back up for at least three blocks in order to get back out onto the main road. All the while, I insisted to both Miss May and my GPS overlord that I knew where I was going. But I can admit, now that the heat of the moment has cooled, that I was struggling to focus on the drive that day. My conversation with Wayne was playing on repeat in my mind. The guy wanted me to meet his parents and his brothers. And, up until the moment it’d become real, it was something I’d wanted as well. Why did it fill me with dread?

Had we not scheduled a trip down to New York City for that morning, I would have traipsed out to the barn to talk things over with See-Saw.

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